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Detroit Schools pays ex-con for PR drive: He lacks training but made 568K

Also, 200 Detroit teachers to go in April due to untimely early retirement deal.

Are DPS ad campaigns a necessity or failure?

I saw this article in the NYT about New York schools. I guess I just want to ask is alcohol a big problem in Detroit Public Schools now? I don't remember it being that way... I always thought of it as a problem more prevelent in White schools, like cigarettes. Not to say Black kids in DPS don't do other stuff (smoke pot, have sex in the bathrooms etc...) If it is/were a problem, how would you feel about these types of measures being taken?

By PATRICK O'GILFOIL HEALY

AST HAMPTON, N.Y. - For years, schools across the country have deployed breath analyzers at proms, pep rallies and other after-school events to catch students who arrived drunk or smuggled in alcohol.

After some resistance and fevered debate, student advocates and even lawyers gradually came to accept that schools were within their rights to use every means to ensure that students were not toting six-packs and liquor bottles to after-school, night and weekend events.

Quietly though, a few districts around the country, from Indiana to Connecticut to Long Island, have begun to integrate breath-testing devices into the regular school day, a move that adds a new wrinkle to the ongoing struggle between students' privacy rights and a school's duty to limit drug and alcohol abuse.

Schools say they need to ensure that no students are drinking in class. Civil rights lawyers worry that high school students pulled out of class and forced to take a breath-alcohol test could be unfairly stigmatized for goofy or strange behavior.

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Read about it here.

Apparently this is the school that replaces CMA and DSA. I think that it's clearly more of a replacement for DSA, however (why else would you need to audition in order to gain admission?)

I just wanted to say hello. I graduated from King High School (CISC) in 1997. I'm not living in Detroit now but I am really interested in what's going on there... Sounds like things are a real mess...

In an effort to keep students in the city, DPS is no longer issuing waivers for students to attend in other districts. You needed an official waiver??? I always thought you just used your mom's friend's address in Southfield.

Detroiters get to vote for school board representatives, but districts must be re-drawn because of population decrease and resultant school closings. Do your parents vote? If they do, is it an informed vote? Will it be informed in light of the current circumstances? One can only hope.

I suppose the school closings are worth talking about (just in case this community isn't completely dead).
http://www.freep.com/news/educatio…

I used to go to DPS in elementary. I was wondering if there is anyone in this community who went to George Washington Carver Elementary during the years 1994-2001.

peace.

My little brother couldn't quite cut it Henry Ford. A week ago, he was suspended for unexcused absences and has decided not to go back. He will be starting at a 'reform' (I forgot the word he actually used) school this coming Monday. He hopes to gain enough credits to graduate on time (2005). He surely wouldn't graduate on time were he to continue at HF because the failed classes just keep adding up and he hasn't gone to summer school in two years. The reform school appearantly gives more credits for certain classes than HF would. This school is located on the north side of Eight Mile between Southfield and Northland Drive. I had no idea there was anything open and operating on that strip, other than the credit union.

How did this happen to my brother? He's always dressed in the hottest "gear", and he gets all the pretty girls' "digits" at the skating rink... but he can't seem to find his way to class. Coincidentally, he recently started working at Popeye's Chicken 20-25 hours/week. I bet he always shows up for work. If he didn't, that would mean he'd get fired, and getting fired means no more "bling-bling".

As a new mother, I'm finding that if there's undesireable behavior in my children, it's usually because they've picked up the behavior directly from me. For example, when two year-old Georgie says, "Fuck that!" It's because he just heard me or his father (or the tv we let him watch) say it. Somewhere down the line my parents have neglected my brother. It's not all their fault though. A school system that suspends kids for not showing up is probably due a fare share of blame.